Congratulations on your reelection. You no doubt know how much the black community appreciates the historical significance of both of your successful presidential campaigns. If you didn’t, all you have to do is Google the numbers.

In 2008, according to several exit polls, you captured 95 to 98 percent of the black vote. For 2012, the estimates are 94 to 96 percent.

We understand a broad coalition elected you as president both terms, not just us. But we have had your back at a rate much higher than other slices of your coalition, and you know it.

Now, Mr. President, how about some payback?

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This is not an unreasonable request. Just ask women, gays and immigrants.

For women, on your first day in office you signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Later came your birth-control mandate that guarantees women access to free contraceptives.

For gays, you announced your support for same-sex marriage on “Good Morning America.”

For immigrants, you stopped deporting younger, undocumented immigrants — most of them Latino — and began granting work permits for some of them.

Noticeably missing from the list is any demonstrable policy change — or change of mind — aimed squarely at black members of your coalition. Some of your black supporters raised that issue even as they celebrated your victory on election night and the morning after.

“Now he’s got to do something for us,” Reginald Miles, a professor at Howard University, said minutes after networks began declaring Obama’s win. “We should get our reward.”

A friend who worked in the Clinton White House heard about this line of thinking and dismissed it. “Which one of those groups does not include black people?” she asked. “There are black women. They are black gays and black immigrants. And what about his health-care bill — don’t blacks benefit from that?”

I understand her point, Mr. President, but she did not hear what I did from different people in different places less than 12 hours after your victory: Something for us.

Many blacks who supported you in 2008 adopted a stay-quiet-and-wait posture. They wanted a second term for you. We understood that meant you had to camouflage your blackness.

A few African Americans did challenge you, Mr. President, and urged you to reach out more to blacks and to the poor. You know, people like Cornel West and Tavis Smiley. But your unofficial wingmen, radio hosts Tom Joyner and Steve Harvey, shot West and Smiley down with nasty verbal assaults.

It was safer to stay quiet and wait. In the meantime, you served up trinkets to your black supporters.

You granted interviews and allowed yourself to be videotaped playing basketball, that black game.

You sympathized with anger generated by the slaying of Trayvon Martin, saying in a statement, “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.”

But no policy changes. Nothing for us.

Mr. President, many of us got the wait-until-a-second-term message earlier this year. In March, the media reported that you were “caught” on an open microphone telling then-Russian president Dmitry Medvedev to pass some words on to Vladimir Putin. “It’s important for him to give me space,” you said. “This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.”

You could have been speaking to your black supporters, Mr. President. Now you earned the second term, and the flexibility that comes with it.

Your legacy is secure. The first black president of the United States. One of only three Democratic presidents to be elected to a second term in the past century. Now, sir, you can work on the third, fourth and fifth paragraphs of your story. Something for us.

But what something, you ask. What I heard from some of your supporters in the hours after your victory did not come with specifics, Mr. President. Blacks in this country aren’t monolithic. We want different things. Besides, it seems as if the road you take to get the result would carry as much weight as the result.

“We need to decide what we want,” Miles said. “Make calls. Write letters. Send e-mails. And just like FDR told A. Philip Randolph, we need to make Obama do it.”